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The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is known for its innovative research and exemplary scholarship. Our faculty work at the cutting edge of their respective fields, covering a wide variety of geographic, temporal, and thematic fields of study. The areas of specialization listed here are by no means an exhaustive list of our scholastic interests. Rather, they highlight the diverse and often overlapping ideas and approaches we explore within our teaching and research.

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Ancient and Medieval Worlds

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Charles Webster Hedrick

Title
- Professor Emeritus
Email
- hedrick@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Ancient World / Classics, Democracy, Classical Studies, Classics, History

Elaine A Sullivan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- easulliv@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Egyptology; Archaeology; Digital Humanities; Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments; Ancient World / Classics; History

Borderlands and Transnationalism

Noriko Aso

Title
- Associate Professor
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Assistant Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

David T Brundage

Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Research Professor of History
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Professor
- History Department Undergraduate Program Director
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlpr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Edward H Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Aims McGuinness

Title
- College Provost, Merrill College
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Gregory O′Malley

Title
- Professor and Chair of History
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.

Alice Yang

Title
- Professor, History Department
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Colonialism and Empire

Noriko Aso

Title
- Associate Professor
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Assistant Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Benjamin P Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Science Studies, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I'm an associate professor of history at UCSC interested in the history of science, medicine, empire, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My most recent book, Tripping on Read more ...

David T Brundage

Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Research Professor of History
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Professor
- History Department Undergraduate Program Director
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlpr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Muriam H Davis

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Jennifer L Derr

Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

Maria Elena Diaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Kathleen C Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies, Community-based Research
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences, agrarian migration

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Edward H Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Amy Joy Lonetree

Title
- Professor
Email
- lonetree@ucsc.edu
Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Marc Matera

Title
- Professor
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- College Provost, Merrill College
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu

Gregory O′Malley

Title
- Professor and Chair of History
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Eric Porter

Title
- Distinguished Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Juned Noor M Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice Yang

Title
- Professor, History Department
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Critical Race and Indigeneity

Muriam H Davis

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Maria Elena Diaz

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mediaz@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Latin American and Latino Studies, History, Race, Law and Policy, Personal and Social Identities, Spanish
Summary of Expertise
Colonial Latin America and Caribbean history

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Catherine A Jones

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- catjones@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation

Civil War Era

History of Children and Childhood

American South

Amy Joy Lonetree

Title
- Professor
Email
- lonetree@ucsc.edu
Summary of Expertise
Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Commemoration and Public Memory, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Marc Matera

Title
- Professor
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- College Provost, Merrill College
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Gregory O′Malley

Title
- Professor and Chair of History
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Eric Porter

Title
- Distinguished Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Alice Yang

Title
- Professor, History Department
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Early Modern World

Benjamin P Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Science Studies, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I'm an associate professor of history at UCSC interested in the history of science, medicine, empire, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My most recent book, Tripping on Read more ...

Alan S Christy

Title
- Cowell Provost
- Professor
- History Department Undergraduate Program Director
Email
- achristy@ucsc.edu
- cowlpr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Asian Studies, Digital Humanities

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu

Edward H Kehler

Title
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- ekehler@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, German Studies, Communism, European Politics, European Studies, Fascism, Film, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Nationalism, Post Communist Politics

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu

Gregory O′Malley

Title
- Professor and Chair of History
Email
- gomalley@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Slavery, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, History, Race, African American / Black Studies, World History, Digital Humanities, US History

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Gender and Sexuality

Noriko Aso

Title
- Associate Professor
- East Asian Studies Program Director
- Assistant Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Email
- naso@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, Pacific Rim, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture, Popular Culture, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Japanese history, cultural and intellectual

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Grace Peña Delgado

Title
- Professor
Email
- gpdelgad@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Border Studies, Ethnicity, Chicana/o Studies, Nationalism, Immigration, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sexuality, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Mexico
Summary of Expertise
North American Borderlands (Canada-U.S.-Mexico)

Immigration--Mexican, Asian

Gender and Sexuality

Race and Nationalism

Chinese in Mexico

Catherine A Jones

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- catjones@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Civil War, Gender Studies, Race, Youth Studies
Summary of Expertise
Slavery and Emancipation

Civil War Era

History of Children and Childhood

American South

Marc Matera

Title
- Professor
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Alice Yang

Title
- Professor, History Department
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Labor and Social Movements

David T Brundage

Title
- Professor Emeritus
- Research Professor of History
Email
- brundage@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Immigration, Class, Colonialism, Discrimination and Inequality, History, Labor and Social Movements, US History

Shelly Chan

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- spchan@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise China, Globalization, World History, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern and contemporary China through transnational, diasporic, and oceanic approaches

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Marc Matera

Title
- Professor
Email
- mmatera@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies

Aims McGuinness

Title
- College Provost, Merrill College
- Associate Professor
Email
- amcguinn@ucsc.edu
- aimsmcg@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History
Summary of Expertise
Latin America, Panamá, U.S. empire, race, labor, California Gold Rush, socialism, Cold War, transnational/global history/world history.

Eric Porter

Title
- Distinguished Professor
Email
- ecporter@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise African American / Black Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Jazz, American Studies, California History, Improvisation, Urban studies, Cultural Studies

Juned Noor M Shaikh

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- jmshaikh@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise India and Indian Studies, Marxism, World History, Colonialism, Labor and Social Movements, Urban studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern South Asia, Urban, Labor, Caste, Dalit Studies, Marxism, and Intellectual History.

Alice Yang

Title
- Professor, History Department
- Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Email
- ayang@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Comparative Politics, California History, Colonialism, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Labor and Social Read more ...
Summary of Expertise
Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations
Read more ...

Religion and Secularism

Nathaniel P Deutsch

Title
- Distinguished Professor and Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
- Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
Email
- ndeutsch@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, African American / Black Studies, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ethnography
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish history; Hasidism; History of Religions, African American Islam; history of eugenics in the United States; Gnosticism

Alma R Heckman

Title
- Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies
- Associate Professor
Email
- aheckman@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Jewish Studies and Judaism, Middle East Studies, Mediterranean Studies
Summary of Expertise
Modern Jewish History

Modern History of North Africa and the Middle East

Matt O′Hara

Title
- Provost, Stevenson College
- Professor
Email
- mdohara@ucsc.edu

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.

Marilyn J Westerkamp

Title
- Professor
Email
- mjw@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Colonialism, Gender Studies, Religion and Secularism, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies

Science, Technology, and Environment

Benjamin P Breen

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- bebreen@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Science Studies, Colonialism, Digital Humanities, Drug Policy, World History
Summary of Expertise
I'm an associate professor of history at UCSC interested in the history of science, medicine, empire, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My most recent book, Tripping on Read more ...

Muriam H Davis

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies

Jennifer L Derr

Title
- Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz
Email
- jderr@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water

Kathleen C Gutierrez

Title
- Assistant Professor
Email
- kgutie20@ucsc.edu
- gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise The Philippines, Southeast Asian Studies, History of Science, Colonialism, Science Studies, Community-based Research
Summary of Expertise
Philippine history, science and technology studies, Southeast Asian studies, history of plant sciences, agrarian migration

Minghui Hu

Title
- Associate Professor
Email
- mhu@ucsc.edu

Bruce A Thompson

Title
- Jewish Studies Academic Advising Coordinator
- Continuing Lecturer
Email
- brucet@ucsc.edu
Faculty Areas of Expertise California History, Climate Change, Environmental History, European Studies, Film, History, Jewish Studies and Judaism, Religion and Secularism, War
Summary of Expertise
European history, Jewish history and literature.